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ἐπέστελλε (epestelle)

ἐπέστελλε is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιστέλλω, meaning “send a message, order”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 70 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Agesilaus 6.2: ἅμα δὲ τοῖς ἐν Ἀσίᾳ φίλοις ἐπέστελλε πέμπειν εἰς Λακεδαίμονα καὶ στρατηγὸν Ἀγησίλαον αἰτεῖσθαι. παρελθὼν οὖν εἰς τὸ πλῆθος Ἀγησίλαος ἀνεδέξατο τὸν …

Appianus of Alexandria, Civil Wars 1.9.77: Σύλλας δʼ ἐπὶ φρονήματος ἐπέστέλλε τῇ βουλῇ περί τε αὑτοῦ καταλέγων, ὅσα περὶ Λιβύην ἐς Ἰογόρθαν τὸν Νομάδα ἔτι ταμιεύων ἢ ἐπὶ τοῖς Κιμβρικοῖς π …

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 175: Πρώην ἐπέστελλέ μοι ἡ σεμνότης σου ἄλλα τινὰ καὶ περὶ πίστεως γράψαι ἡμᾶς ἐναργῶς προστάσσουσα. ἀλλʼ ἐγὼ τὴν μὲν σὴν περὶ τὸ …

All forms of ἐπιστέλλω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.